The making of a power-mad political monster
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Noynoy Aquino appears to believe that, as he is President of the Republic, he is so powerful that he can even make a co-equal branch of government — the Supreme Court (SC) — bow to his whims as well as surrender to his vindictive nature.
He has also shown — and not just once — that he holds no respect for the co-equal branch of government that moreover has the constitutional mandate to pass judgment and rule on controversial acts, decrees, circulars, as the high court, whether or not people agree with its rulings, is the final arbiter in such questioned acts.
Noynoy went on an attack mode against the high court, after it issued a status quo ante order in a case of the so-called “midnight appointees” one of the many he had fired upon his assumption to office, through his Executive Order (EO) 2, which revoked the appointment of National Commission on Muslim Filipinos commissioner and secretary Bai Omera Dianalan-Lucman.
Reacting to the SC order, which contradicts his EO 2 — at least in the case of petitioner Lucman, Noynoy charged that the high court’s move sets back his administration’s reform efforts..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101015com2.html
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